U.S. Army Purchases Riot Gear As Fears Over Civil Unrest Grow

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U.S. Army Purchases Riot Gear As Fears Over Civil Unrest Grow

Read the article and tell me this isn't getting scary. Homeland Security is already saying they expect civil unrest prior to the Presidential election in November. What does that mean? Protests at the conventions? Or all out riots if the current administration does not win again? Or riots if they do?

When did America come to the point that the government would openly plan of violating Posse Comitatus?

I realize this comes from Infowars.com so I am willing to entertain the notion that this may all be hyperbole. What do you think?

Fantasy Mountain out of mole hill of a normal defense requisition. The linked leaked document on "killing Americans", dated during the W. Bush second term is basic. We're in easy times compared to a lot that this country has been through. Where is the uprising and the government overreaction? Pure hokum.

You really need to ask?
Part of what Alex Jones relies on is that most people that read his stuff are not going to read everything in the links. Here is the list of items from the order for West Point. Note the quantities. Scary enough for you?

I know municipal police departments with substantially more gear than that. This is more than likely just replacing worn out/damaged stuff used in training for civil affairs units. A friend of mine who was in the reserves back in the day got to spend two years in Haiti in the mid 90's while they rebuilt democracy there.

My old department has about seven times that much stuff for a single suburban county. This is for a national agency.

The "leaked" document is training material from the Military Police school dated 2006 which last I heard was avialable in printed form from the government printing office. Imagine that, teaching MPs crowd control! In that manual it also refers to National Guard units. As far as the warning shots will not be fired, that comes after.......

(1) Commanders are authorized to use non-deadly force to control the disturbance, to prevent crimes,
and to detain persons who have committed crimes; but the degree of force used must be not greater than
that reasonably necessary under the circumstances. The use of deadly force, in effect, invokes the power
of summary execution and can, therefore, be justified only by extreme circumstances. Accordingly, its
use is not authorized for the purpose of preventing activities which do not pose a significant risk of death
or serious bodily harm. If a mission cannot be accomplished without the use of deadly force, but deadly
force is not permitted under the guidelines authorizing its use, accomplishment of the mission must be
delayed until sufficient non-deadly force can be brought to bear. All the requirements of paragraph (b),
below, must be met in every case in which deadly force is employed.
(2) The use of deadly force is authorized only under conditions of extreme necessity and as a last resort
when all lesser means have failed or cannot be reasonably be employed. Deadly force is justified under
one or more of the following circumstances:

They then go on about self defense, protecting national security assets from theft or sabotage (stuff like nuclear weapons)
The bit about warning shots is pretty much like they told us in our CHL class.

(4) In addition, the following policies regarding the use of deadly force will be observed:
(a) Give an order to halt.
(b) Warning shot will not be fired.
(c) When a firearm is discharged it will be fired with the intent of rendering the person(s) at whom it
is discharged incapable of continuing that activity or course of behavior prompting the individual to
shoot.
(d) Shot will be fired only with due regard for the safety of innocent bystanders.
(e) In the case of holstered weapons, a weapon should not be removed from the holster unless there
is reasonable expectation that use of the weapon may be necessary.

As far as locking us all up.....

f. Army Detention Facilities.
(1) The Army will not operate facilities for confinement, custody, or detention of civilian personnel
apprehended for violation of local or state laws as long as civil confinement facilities, operated by the
Department of Justice, state, or local agencies are sufficient to accommodate the number of persons
apprehended.
(2) When it appears that available local facilities are insufficient, due to the large number of persons
apprehended or detained, and this fact can be verified by the person or agency responsible for the
facilities, temporary confinement/detention facilities may be operated with prior approval from DA,
specifically, the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army. These facilities will be operated only until custody of the
persons detained can be transferred to and assumed by civil authorities. They will not be used for the
confinement of persons charged or convicted under civil jurisdiction.
(3) Temporary confinement/detention facilities can be developed from local federal facilities provided
they are adaptable to the requirements of custody and control. Such facilities should be established, if
possible, within the affected area; this will conserve time, transportation, and escort personnel.

And if you recall a while back they had one of their scare pieces out about the U.N. treaty where they said to look at the punctuation. Lets look at the punctuation here shall we? In that paragraph that talks about page 20 of the manual, why do you suppose they use the quotation marks like they do? Could it be because in the manual it does not actually say what they want us to think it says? You tell me. The quote above about the use of deadly force (much like we get in a CHL class) is actually from page 20.

And yes, plans for U.S. troops to be used for civil disturbances on U.S. soil have been going on for years. L.A. Riots ring any bells? Or how about this?central.jpg

So forgive me if I don't get too excited about what Alex Jones has to say.

"He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal . . . and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought he knew) that he was in reality not a man, but a wolf of the Steppes."

It's really beyond me how we can tune in and watch so many animals on the streets that are willing to go out and cause their community so much damage. All these idiots want to do is be where the action is, loot, rob, arson and be on TV like they really have a cause worth violence. (Usually a sports team's loss or something else pretty stupid or maybe a court case that didn't go through our system like they thought it should) MLK Jr. had the right approach and a cause worth addressing and he got a lot farther than anyone else ever has by flipping a car over.

So yeah, IMO I think that the Police, National Guard or civilians defending their businesses or homes ought to be able to use extreme force against extreme stupidity. As for a business owner, talk about your disparity of force. Those lighting molotov coctails should be shot or this happens... London riots: police lose battle as lawlessness erupts - Telegraph

~ Residents accused the police of abandoning them. Matthew Yeoland, 43, a teacher from Peckham, where property was set ablaze, said: "It's like a war zone and the police weren't doing anything. There were too many people and not enough police."~

Can you blame them? Really, they were "accused?" Looks like people should also be able to take care of themselves when this happens huh?

It's really beyond me how we can tune in and watch so many animals on the streets that are willing to go out and cause their community so much damage. All these idiots want to do is be where the action is, loot, rob, arson and be on TV like they really have a cause worth violence. (Usually a sports team's loss or something else pretty stupid or maybe a court case that didn't go through our system like they thought it should) MLK Jr. had the right approach and a cause worth addressing and he got a lot farther than anyone else ever has by flipping a car over.

So yeah, IMO I think that the Police, National Guard or civilians defending their businesses or homes ought to be able to use extreme force against extreme stupidity. As for a business owner, talk about your disparity of force. Those lighting molotov coctails should be shot or this happens... London riots: police lose battle as lawlessness erupts - Telegraph

~ Residents accused the police of abandoning them. Matthew Yeoland, 43, a teacher from Peckham, where property was set ablaze, said: "It's like a war zone and the police weren't doing anything. There were too many people and not enough police."~

Can you blame them? Really, they were "accused?" Looks like people should also be able to take care of themselves when this happens huh?